ABSTRACT
On most current theories of speaking, the production of an utterance involves three types of processes: conceptualisation, formulation, and articulation (e.g., Bock & Levelt, 1994; Caplan, 1992; Garrett, 1975; Kempen & Hoenkamp, 1987; Levelt, 1989; Levelt, Roelof, & Meyer, 1999; see also Bock and Griffin’s chapter in the current volume). Conceptualisation is the generation of a so-called message capturing the speaker’s communicative intention. It is a prelinguistic specification of the content of the utterance. Formulation processes take the message as input, access appropriate entries in the mental lexicon, and construct the syntactic and morpho-phonological structures of the utterance. On the basis of this information, articulatory programs can be retrieved and executed.
